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Polymers, Volume 12, Issue 7

July 2020 - 191 articles

Cover Story: Plasma treatment of liquid suspensions of cellulose is proposed as an environmentally friendly, simple, and cheap alternative to chemical treatment of cellulose. In this work, cellulose was treated by plasma and TEMPO-mediated oxidation. Both treatments led to the surface functionalization of cellulose, and a stronger oxidizing effect was observed after TEMPO oxidation. Plasma- and TEMPO-modified celluloses were incorporated in a poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) matrix and both treatments were efficient in improving the fiber–polymer interface. However, the highest increase of the mechanical properties was observed in the composite with plasma-modified cellulose, which is promising for biomedical applications. View this paper.
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Articles (191)

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,495 Views
14 Pages

Wastewater Treatment by a Polymeric Bioflocculant and Iron Nanoparticles Synthesized from a Bioflocculant

  • Nkosinathi Goodman Dlamini,
  • Albertus Kotze Basson and
  • Rajasekhar VSR Pullabhotla

21 July 2020

Wastewater remains a global challenge. Various methods have been used in wastewater treatment, including flocculation. The aim of this study was to synthesize iron nanoparticles (FeNPs) using a polymeric bioflocculant and to evaluate its efficacy in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,847 Views
15 Pages

21 July 2020

Laminates with unidirectionally arrayed chopped strands (UACS) are one of the advanced short fiber reinforced polymer composites (SFRP) with significant application prospect, which greatly improves mechanical properties compared to the traditional SF...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,235 Views
10 Pages

21 July 2020

Cellulose beads were successfully prepared from waste denim using a dissolution-regeneration approach with ionic liquids as the dissolving solvent. Cellulose beads with different morphologies were achieved by altering the dissolving and coagulating s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,059 Views
11 Pages

High Acid Biochar-Based Solid Acid Catalyst from Corn Stalk for Lignin Hydrothermal Degradation

  • Qimeng Jiang,
  • Guihua Yang,
  • Fangong Kong,
  • Pedram Fatehi and
  • Xiaoying Wang

21 July 2020

Solid acid catalysts generally show the disadvantage of low acid amount and low recycling rate. To solve these problems, corn stalk-based solid acid catalysts were synthesized through carbonization and sulfonation processes in this work. The results...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,725 Views
18 Pages

Application of Synchrotron Radiation X-ray Scattering and Spectroscopy to Soft Matter

  • Atsushi Takahara,
  • Yuji Higaki,
  • Tomoyasu Hirai and
  • Ryohei Ishige

21 July 2020

Light produced by synchrotron radiation (SR) is much brighter than that produced by conventional laboratory X-ray sources. The photon energy of SR X-ray ranges from soft and tender X-rays to hard X-rays. Moreover, X-rays become element sensitive with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,628 Views
15 Pages

Acrylic Bone Cement Incorporated with Low Chitosan Loadings

  • Mayra Eliana Valencia Zapata,
  • José Herminsul Mina Hernandez and
  • Carlos David Grande Tovar

21 July 2020

Despite the potential of acrylic bone cement (ABC) loaded with chitosan (CS) for orthopedic applications, there are only a few in vitro studies of this composite with CS loading ≤ 15 wt.% evaluated in bioactivity tests in simulated body fluid (SBF...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,241 Views
13 Pages

Semi-Crystalline Polymers Applied to Taylor Impact Test: Constitutive, Experimental and FEM Analysis

  • Lizhi Xu,
  • Chun Cheng,
  • Chengxin Du,
  • Zhaoxiu Jiang,
  • Zhonghua Du and
  • Guangfa Gao

21 July 2020

Based on mechanical properties of Polyamide 66 (PA66) under complex loading conditions, a Drucker–Prager yield criterion was employed to characterize its yield behavior. Then, a one-dimensional model, which contains a viscoelastic regime and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,566 Views
17 Pages

Infrared Thermography Approach for Pipelines and Cylindrical Based Geometries

  • Saed Amer,
  • Houda Al Zarkani,
  • Stefano Sfarra and
  • Mohammed Omar

21 July 2020

Infrared thermography (IRT) is a competitive method for nondestructive testing; yet it is susceptible to errors when testing objects with complex geometries. This work investigates the effects of regulating different thermographic testing parameters...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,294 Views
16 Pages

New Manufacturing Process of Composites Reinforced with ZnO Nanoparticles Recycled from Alkaline Batteries

  • Isaac Lorero,
  • Mónica Campo,
  • Gilberto Del Rosario,
  • Félix Antonio López and
  • Silvia González Prolongo

21 July 2020

A new manufacturing method of thermosetting resins reinforced with dense particles is developed in the present work. A rotary mold is used, avoiding the natural sedimentation of particles through applying centrifuge forces. A deep study of the sedime...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,897 Views
16 Pages

21 July 2020

In this paper, we adopted a simple and efficient strategy to prepare a β-cyclodextrin (β-CD)-modified hyper-crosslinked polymer (CDM-HCP). The structures and physicochemical properties of the as-synthesized polymer were also evaluated. It w...

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Polymers - ISSN 2073-4360